Optimal farm management responses to emerging soil salinisation in a dryland catchment in eastern Australia

A Review of Soil-Improving Cropping Systems for Soil Salinization

“…The major herbaceous option is lucerne (Medicago sativa L.) species that fits well into a wheat-sheep system, providing valuable summer fodder as well as additional transpiration [71]. Greiner [107] recommends increasing cropping frequency as it raises farm income and reduces recharge to groundwater.…”

“…Sustaining the productivity of rice fields in the Liverpool Plains in Australia depends to a great extent on reducing the recharge to the groundwater system by changing land use practices [107]. The first approach applies to maintaining the total water balance by growing deep-rooted crops over an area capable to consume the recharge of the area of the rice field.…”